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neshen

neshen verb: to make tender or soft; mollify.

Verb

neshen (third-person singular simple present neshens, present participle neshening, simple past and past participle neshened)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To make tender or soft; mollify.

Forms of neshen

third-person singular presentneshens
present participleneshening
past participleneshened
pastneshened

Origin of neshen

From nesh (“soft, tender”) + -en.

Words that rhyme with neshen

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about neshen

What does neshen mean?
Neshen means to make tender or soft; mollify.
What part of speech is neshen?
Neshen is a verb.
What is the past tense of neshen?
The past tense of neshen is neshened.

Words near neshen in the dictionary

  1. neshed
  2. Nesheim
  3. Nesheims
  4. Nesheiwat
  5. Nesheiwats
  6. neshen
  7. neshened
  8. neshening
  9. neshens
  10. nesher
  11. neshes

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